Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë sisters of Haworth, Yorkshire. She worked as a governess, an experience she drew on in her first novel, Agnes Grey (1847).

Her poems appeared in 1846 in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), is an early feminist classic. She died of tuberculosis in Scarborough at 29.